Then how did he get 17 TD passes?
A QB with under 50% completions is not protecting the ball.
Having more TD passes than interceptions is the usual measure for protecting the ball, or I suppose interceptions per pass attempt would be another. Then there is also the matter of having more wins than losses. Most of the time in the NFL, the team that wins turnovers, wins the game. And Tebow has more wins than losses. And Tebow did turn the ball over significantly in his losses, but he had fewer of those than he did wins, when he did an excellent job of protecting the ball.
17 TD passes for 23 games (we’ll do him a favor and pretend that NYJ year never happened) isn’t actually very much. That’s less than 1 a game. Not really an NFL caliber QB stat.
His TD to INT ratio isn’t that good. And also one must remember just how often he threw hardly any passes. If your OC trusts you so little that you only throw 10 times in a game you’re probably not going to throw an INT, because it’s hard to throw an INT when you’re not throwing period.
It’s a 53 man roster. QBs don’t win alone. Tebow was helped quite a bit by the Denver defense getting their act together and shaving 15 points off their PAA.
The facts are in. He is not a good QB. Period. The Tebow cultists need to internalize that. Don’t know why you guys can’t handle a simple and obvious truth. You keep beating the drum on “his” wins and studiously ignore the plainly obvious truth. Don’t know why so many of you have your sense of self worth tied to him. But it’s sad.
Meanwhile enjoy the OTA footage that leaks of him. He probably won’t be on the team come pre-season, and just forget regular season action.